Concept Guide

Collecting System Inventory
When Collect System Inventory On Restart (CSIOR) is set to enabled, Lifecycle Controller performs an inventory and collects the
configuration information for all hardware on every system restart. Additionally, the system inventory collection also detects any
changes in hardware. If the Part Replacement feature is enabled and CSIOR detects that the managed hardware is replaced,
Lifecycle Controller restores the previous configuration and firmware on the newly installed device based on the inventory collected
during the previous system restart.
The CSIOR setting is enabled by default and it can be disabled locally by using Lifecycle Controller or remotely with WS-MAN. You
can change the settings to one of the following:
• Enable — Hardware inventory and configuration information is collected on every system restart. Collecting system inventory
may affect the boot time depending on the hardware present in the system.
• Disable — Hardware inventory and configuration information will not be collected on every system restart. The usage of many
features depend on the inventory information updates. Features such as Easy Restore and Part Replacement may not contain
the latest information when CSIOR is disabled. In-band tools such as OMSA and DTK cannot configure BIOS when CSIOR is
disabled. Also, system information reported from out-of-band interfaces such as WS-MAN and RACADM may not have correct
information.
Hardware inventory
The hardware inventory information is cached on the persistent storage of Lifecycle Controller and is available to iDRAC and UEFI
applications. It is used to export the hardware inventory from Lifecycle Controller to a text file on a remote share.
You can remotely query the inventory of hardware components. Each hardware inventory class contains important attributes about
the hardware components.
For example, the LastSystemInventoryTime attribute identifies the last time a Collect System Inventory on Restart (CSIOR)
was run. It is an important attribute as it indicates how recently the inventory was updated.
Hardware inventory and configuration information is available for the following components:
• Power Supply Unit
• Fan
• Memory
• CPU
• iDRAC
• PCI Device
• Video Card
• vFlash SD Card
• NIC
• RAID
• BIOS
• System
• Sensor
Lifecycle log
Lifecycle logs contain entries for configuration and firmware updates of BIOS, Storage Controllers, LOMs, and add-in NIC cards, if
supported. The Lifecycle log can be exported to a network share or saved to a USB drive. The Lifecycle Log is accessible through
the iDRAC web interface, RACADM, and WS-MAN interface.
The Lifecycle log provides the following information:
• iDRAC, BIOS, NIC, and RAID configuration changes
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